Delicately hand-carved, alabaster-like stone set of seven sacred chumpi stones, used as ceremonial healing stones. Each stone measures approximately 1.5 - 2.5 inches and features a delightful variety of Peruvian motifs carved into their surface. Each set comes with unique handmade despacho cloth, watana tie and a small rattle. Handmade in Peru.
Tito La Rosa's New CD with Tavo Castillo. The men & woman of ancient Nasca culture, a culture of sand, wind and water, read the past and future in the stars. Inscribed on these lines upon sand, are the memories and presence of this desert's timelessness.
For the Shipibo, pottery is distinctly female work. Quempo is how the Shipibo refers to this type of flaring bowl, also known in the jungle as mocahua. It is used to drink Masato, a thick, yucca-based drink, and for other fluids and therefore has external water-related motifs. The thin walls of this bowl are elegantly constructed so that the rim is narrower than the body.
A face is painted over slight protrusions of pottery for the eyes, nose, chin, and ears. Beautifully painted with fine Shipibo artistic patterns, typical of their work. Made by Shipibo women of Amazonia.
This despacho cloth is a excellent example of the Q'ero quarter weaving technique. Woven with natural colors and embellished with corner yarn tassels. Use this soft cloth as a despacho cloth in ceremonial offerings or as an overlay cloth on your mesa. Made by the native Q'ero of Peru.
These ceramic polychrome vessel with a human face in high relief at the top of the neck. A dark, earthy red, flat base terminates abruptly in a brown ring and then gives way to a creamy color decorated with labyrinthine lines and a projecting human face below a slightly flared, rolled rim.
Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, but they are also the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old and allowed them to create some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. For the Shipibo, pottery is distinctly female work.
Made by Shipibo women of the Amazon Jungle Rainforest.
This simple despacho cloth is woven with wool yarn dyed using natural shades and features a traditional geometric diamond and tika flower pattern in its center band. Crafted with yarn tassels applied to each corner and a bound edging on two sides. Cloths like these are used to carry offerings to Pachamama to the burial or burning place. Gently used, this cloth shows some stretching. Some corner tassels are missing. Hand loomed by the Q'ero of Peru.
Beautiful despacho cloth woven with shades of cool and vibrant tones. Center features subtle yarns in a traditional geometric diamond pattern. Crafted with contrasting corner yarn tassels with two bound edging on two sides.
These ceramic polychrome vessel with a human face in high relief at the top of the neck. A dark, earthy red, flat base terminates abruptly in a brown ring and then gives way to a creamy color decorated with labyrinthine lines and a projecting human face below a slightly flared, rolled rim. Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, but they are also the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old and allowed them to create some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. Made by Shipibo women of the Amazon Jungle Rainforest.
Patterns and colors may slightly vary from photo due to handmade nature.
